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Birdman won Best Picture at the 87th Academy Awards, ending a 34-year streak since a film has won the top prize at the Oscars with a Film Editing nomination. The last Best Picture winner to do that was 1980’s Ordinary People. This was Fox Searchlight’s 2nd Best Picture winner in a row after triumphing with 12 Years a Slave last year. With Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel, …

The Oscar nominations for the 87th Academy Awards are in and Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel, as expected, top the nomination totals with nine apiece. For the first time in three years, the Best Picture total was only eight films. Many thought that, with such a packed year, we’d see a full 10 for the first time since the …

The Visual Effects Society has announced their nominations for Film, Television and Other Media today and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes leads with five, including the top award of Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture. Not far behind, The Hobbit and Interstellar come in with four each. X-Men and Edge of Tomorrow have three apiece. Of the 10 films eligible …

The 17th Costume Designers Guild nominations have chosen Birdman, The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 among the best dressed of 2014. The group, which separates costumes into three categories (Contemporary, Period and Fantasy) revealed their nominations this morning via Twitter. Among a few surprises were a mention for Boyhood and Interstellar showing up in …

As shocking as it may seem for a movie with Rapunzel’s hair and wicked witch old age makeup, the Sondheim movie musical was snubbed in the announcement of the seven films that will compete for three spots on Oscar nomination morning. Other high-profile films that didn’t make the cut were The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (LOTR fatigue, …

The Broadcast Film Critics Association, comprised of 240 entertainment journalists from television, radio and the web, dropped their 2014 Critics’ Choice Movie Awards nominations this morning and with it a resurgence in the seemingly dead Oscar chances of Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken. Where the Screen Actors Guild and the Golden Globes snubbed the film (and Jolie) entirely, the BFCA embraced it …

The Academy announced on Friday that ten films have advanced in the Visual Effects Oscar category. Notably missing are Edge of Tomorrow, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Noah and Exodus: Gods and Kings. The list: Captain America: The Winter Soldier Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Godzilla Guardians of the Galaxy The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Interstellar Maleficent …

Welcome to Contender or Pretender 2014, a new Awardswatch series where, in each entry, we profile a different 2014 film and try to determine whether or not it is bound for Oscar glory next winter. The subject of our inaugural entry is perhaps the most high-profile early contender for the 2014 inaugural season, thanks to the presence of one of …

In what looks to be a banner year for Angelina Jolie, Disney has released a new Maleficent poster to whet your appetite. They’ve also kicked off a new Twitter handle (@Maleficent) and check out the ‘Dream’ trailer below as well: Maleficent opens May 30, 2014.

2020 Best Picture Predictions

1917 (Universal) December 25
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Sony/Columbia) November 22
Ford v. Ferrari (20th Century Fox) November 15
Harriet (Focus Features) November 1
The Irishman (Netflix)
Jojo Rabbit (Fox Searchlight) October 18
Just Mercy (Warner Bros.) January 17, 2020
The Laundromat (Netflix)
Little Women (Sony/Columbia) December 25
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Sony/Columbia) July 26

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